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*Music issues thread*

I thought I would start a thread for those experiencing music play-back issues.
I get 'skipping' when playing back music, but the really annoying thing is that sometimes it does not occur at all. This means I cannot, by process of elimination, determine what the cause is. Today I listened to an album with no problems at all, but last night the same album was skipping very badly - so file type cannot be to blame (it was AAC anyway).
If anyone else is having similar problems, please post and detail your phone model and network.
I have the graphite model on Orange. I have alerted HTC tech support to this problem and am awaiting a response.
Thanks.

Well, I still get intermittant skipping during the beginning of tracks! This is VERY frustrating, especially as I cannot pin down the reason and some people on here seem to have no problems at all. So my music player is effectively useless. I hope the update addresses this issue, but something tells me it won't...

Sorry but I have no problems at all really. Maybe a bit of hiss at the very lowest volumes but other than that I have happily replaced my ipod touch

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Well, I still get intermittant skipping during the beginning of tracks!
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I get the same problem, but only when i listen to one song and it changes to the next. If i select another song theirs no skipping.

I get the same problem, but only when i listen to one song and it changes to the next. If i select another song theirs no skipping.
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Exactly the same here, does anyone out there have a clue why this is happening?

I have this problem too - Hero on Orange in the UK.
I have stuttering with BT playback and also the 'stretching' problem where a track goes off-key, like a dying 1980's walkman. Have tried turning off Wifi/Mobile/GPS but still occurs. Is better if the phone is 12 inches away from the BT headphones, but that kind of sucks.

Are you using bluetooth?
I found that having wifi turned on while using bluetooth caused stuttering, and this was fixed by turning off the wifi.

There are a variety of different issues you may encounter. For those having stuttering issues at the start of a track, are you using the stock SD card supplied with the phone? I think that is only a class 2 SD card, which provides a lower transfer rate which some people think can hobble things - particularly if you have other SD things going on like apps2sd and swapper. I have a 16GB class 6 card installed and haven't noticed any stuttering.
Cutting other background tasks such as Twitter (or at least dialling it back from an update every 5 minutes) may help things.
YMMV.

I've had a few Heroes now and only my most recent one had a stutter problem. The apps and settings were set to be the same on each phone. The MP3s were the same on the same card. I have no idea why one phone would have problems like that when the others didn't.
Happily, I applied the latest Rom and based on listening to half an hour of music last night it seems to be fine now.
Everything works better with this ROM it seems so look forward to release / get flashing.

I can confirm that since installing the Modaco update ROM, I no longer experience skipping/interferance. I have not listened to a large amount of music so it's early days, but things are looking good!
For people's information, I have a class 6 16gb card and yet I still used to get problems. So I think SD cards are not the source of the problem - especially since the update appears to have cured the problem.
Thanks.

I get stuttering and tempo changes over bluetooth using 2.73.405.5 (MCR 2.0), ie. the latest 'official' ROM, AFAIK.
Mid-tune stuttering seems to be down to weak BT transmission, i.e. if I turn my head to the left whilst cycling, I get stutter, if I look forward, it's OK. If I have the handset in one pocket (nearest the BT headphone receiver) no stutter, if I have the handset in the other pocket, I get lots of stutter.
All of this with BT headphones that worked flawlessly with my iPhone 2G...
Hope this gets resolved soon (are you reading HTC?) or the phone going back to Orange for a Nokia N900

I had major stuttering at the start of almost every track with the original ROM. Although as for the OP sometimes it would be fine. Usually it was resolved by a reboot, but not always.
The latest ROM is a lot better (I have installed Generic 2.73.405.5, not MoDaCo's Customer ROM).
There is still occasional stuttering at the start of tracks though when the phone has been on for a long time and I have been making phone calls (the Phone and People apps do not seem to ever shut down once they have been opened - maybe this is the cause), but a reboot now ALWAYS solves it.
Syncing apps also cause a tiny stutter so tweak your apps like Peep etc so as not to be syncing every few minutes.
So, HTC have gotten some of the way there, but they could still improve things from here. Let's hope the next update sorts it (although we're still waiting for 2.73.405.5 to be officially released so who knows when the next one will be?)
Dave

FLAC playback on Galaxy S

Hi all. I'm a long time lurker and 1st time poster. Having been a long time WinMo user (O2 xda2 mini -> HTC Tytn II -> HTC HD -> HTC HD2), I finally made the switch to Android with the Galaxy S (16GB, baseband version I9000ZSJF7) last week. I bought the phone mainly because of the fantastic looking screen and (supposedly) out-of-the-box FLAC playback. With much anticipation, I went to buy a pair of Westone 3 yesterday. Unfortunately, things didn't work out as planned as it seems like FLAC playback is broken on Samsung's Music Player that came with the phone. It seems like the Music Player is unable to finish playing a track w/o crapping out, and it would appear to crap out at the same location of the track every time it is played. When that happens, the music would stop with a popup saying that the Music Player has stopped unexpectedly, and I'm told to force close the application. Some of the things I've tried include:
1. Moving the FLAC from the microSD to internal storage. Same issue.
2. Installing andLess which would give me an "initialization error" whenever I play a FLAC file, regardless of whether "direct h/w access" (performed power cycle after change) is enabled or not.
3. Installing Meridian Player which simply fails to play any FLAC file.
The same FLAC files have always been fine on my HTPC (foobar2000), and appears to be working on the HD2 (CorePlayer). Also, I was able to replicate this FLAC playback issue on my friend's Galaxy S with the default Music Player and same basedband version as mine.
Has anyone successfully played your FLAC on your Galaxy S? What kind of software/setting do you use?
It'd be much appreciated if you guys can enlighten me! Thanks.

junglist1996 said:
Hi all. I'm a long time lurker and 1st time poster. Having been a long time WinMo user (O2 xda2 mini -> HTC Tytn II -> HTC HD -> HTC HD2), I finally made the switch to Android with the Galaxy S (16GB, baseband version I9000ZSJF7) last week. I bought the phone mainly because of the fantastic looking screen and (supposedly) out-of-the-box FLAC playback. With much anticipation, I went to buy a pair of Westone 3 yesterday. Unfortunately, things didn't work out as planned as it seems like FLAC playback is broken on Samsung's Music Player that came with the phone. It seems like the Music Player is unable to finish playing a track w/o crapping out, and it would appear to crap out at the same location of the track every time it is played. When that happens, the music would stop with a popup saying that the Music Player has stopped unexpectedly, and I'm told to force close the application. Some of the things I've tried include:
1. Moving the FLAC from the microSD to internal storage. Same issue.
2. Installing andLess which would give me an "initialization error" whenever I play a FLAC file, regardless of whether "direct h/w access" (performed power cycle after change) is enabled or not.
3. Installing Meridian Player which simply fails to play any FLAC file.
The same FLAC files have always been fine on my HTPC (foobar2000), and appears to be working on the HD2 (CorePlayer). Also, I was able to replicate this FLAC playback issue on my friend's Galaxy S with the default Music Player and same basedband version as mine.
Has anyone successfully played your FLAC on your Galaxy S? What kind of software/setting do you use?
It'd be much appreciated if you guys can enlighten me! Thanks.
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No problem with tested 43.79M 5:01/5:01 flac song.

Hi Dexter, thanks for your response. I guess you must be using the stock Samsung Music Player? I suspect that the FLAC playback issue I'm having is related to the stock ZSJF7 ROM. This same issue can be replicated on my friend's phone with the same ROM and I couldn't seem to find another person having this problem after some Googling. Maybe I should bring the phone back to Sammy's service center for them to have a look at it.

Haven't had any issues myself.
Been playing Tupac's All Eyez On Me album (2CDs/27 tracks of epic lossless ).
Tested on a few firmwares - JF1, JFB, JFF, and now JG1.
I have had music player crash once though (when I was downloading about 5 items at once.. and running a bunch of apps in the background, phone mega lagged and crashed lol)
The fact thats crashing on the same spot suggests to me that it might be a problem with your files, ie. they might be corrupt. I'm not a flac expert thought, but I've had similar issues with MP3s that are corrupt or imperfectly conforming to the MP3 standard, where some players would play and some wouldnt.
IIRC mixzing player might be able to play flac (free version can be downloaded from market)

oswade said:
Haven't had any issues myself.
Been playing Tupac's All Eyez On Me album (2CDs/27 tracks of epic lossless ).
Tested on a few firmwares - JF1, JFB, JFF, and now JG1.
I have had music player crash once though (when I was downloading about 5 items at once.. and running a bunch of apps in the background, phone mega lagged and crashed lol)
The fact thats crashing on the same spot suggests to me that it might be a problem with your files, ie. they might be corrupt. I'm not a flac expert thought, but I've had similar issues with MP3s that are corrupt or imperfectly conforming to the MP3 standard, where some players would play and some wouldnt.
IIRC mixzing player might be able to play flac (free version can be downloaded from market)
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Thanks for your response. Are you using the default Samsung Music Player?
I initially thought that my FLAC files were to blame but I have run into the same playback issue with every single FLAC I've tried so far while playback of the same files is absolutely fine on the HTPC. I'll try to play these files directly from the microSD card when I get home. Another thing is that my friend was playing his own FLAC on his Galaxy S and we still run into the same issue on different phones. I think it's a bit unlikely that we both have corrupted FLAC that would otherwise play without issues elsewhere. As for andLess and Meridian Player, they simply won't work at all so the primary suspect would appear to be the Hong Kong ROM that we both have. As far as I know, andLess and Meridian don't require rooting, no (my phone isn't rooted)?
Anyway, I'll bring the phone to the service center and see what do they have to say about this.

No problems playing FLACs here with standard Samsung Music-player, on XXJF3.
Except, it doesn't read the ID3-tags, so they all appear as unknown artist - which is quite bothersome.

yes, using default samsung player.
Like I said, I think there are some free players which can play flac, like mixzing if i remember correctly. You should try them
You said they all freeze at the same spot right... what spot is that?
Are you getting all your flacs from the same source/software? Are all the files the same length? Surely if say.. they all freeze at 1min mark, can you try a 59second song cut?
I'm a little skeptical I guess... it sounds more like software problem than a hardware issue.
I'd flash to a newer firmware if I was you, but I understand if you don't want to flash (the risks + data loss etc).

..been playing FLAC on my unit from when it was on stock firmware and now JG1.. no issues whatsoever.. yup, using the default player.
..weird that you are having issues on playing flac files.. it might be the case that the file is corrupted during transfer.. but i might be wrong.
..providing the details of the flac file here would help other experienced users assist you with your case.. just a friendly advise.

Many thanks for the replies. I was at the Samsung service center earlier & their suggestion to me was use MP3 instead as FLAC takes up too much space & requires too much processing power! I don't buy that bs and I wouldn't think that's an ideal solution. The dude then "hinted" at installing a custom ROM or wait for the 2.2 update. Wow...
I've installed Mixzing which has FLAC support but unfortunately same issue as before. My FLAC collection consists of *cough* d/l'ed stuff and a few EAC rip of my CDs. What kind of FLAC info can I post? Anyway, I'll try to rip a few more CDs when I get the chance. Btw, does Android have native FAT32 support for microSD?
I know I need to make sure the FLACs aren't corrupted but I'm inclined to think this is an issue with the Hong Kong ROM which me and my friend has. And it seems like no one else is experiencing this issue! I know a third person who has this phone so perhaps I can try to verify with him also.
Thanks once again and I shall report back with any new findings.
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edit: the playback would crap out at the different points for different track but always the same point for the same track. So I suppose that would indicate that something is wrong with the FLACs themselves.

What happens if you put the flac files wich are on the phone back on the pc and play them with an other device? That way you can at least determin if the fault may lie in the transfer of the files? I had some avi's corrupting while putting them on the phone, reinstalling the usb drivers (and kies) fixed that for me

Ok, I took the microSD card out and played the FLACs directly from my HTPC with foobar2000. Just to make sure, I'm also playing the FLACs now directly from the microSD card on my work laptop with Winamp as the player. I didn't encounter any problem when playing these FLACs from the HTPC and the laptop with two different players so I am quite confident that the files and the microSD card are fine. I think I've also mentioned before that I have already tried to play the same FLACs on the microSD card with CorePlayer on my HTC HD2 w/o any issues.
During the encounter with a certain "individual" yesterday, he has suggested that the Samsung Music Player was poorly written and was maxing out the CPU when I try to play a FLAC on the phone. That was contrary to my knowledge as I don't think FLAC decoding is something that the Hummingbird with 512MB of RAM can't handle. So I loaded TaskManager which seems to indicate that the Music Player was at most using 3% of the CPU while playing a FLAC.
So, from what I have gathered so far:
1. AFAIK, this FLAC playback issue has only appeared on 3 phones (mine, my friend's, and the Samsung tech's) all with stock Hong Kong ROM. No one else with other ROMs seem to have this issue I'm currently experiencing.
2. The same issue shows up on 3 different players I've tried on the Galaxy S.
3. I have used the same microSD card and successfully played the same FLACs on my HTPC, laptop and HTC HD2 with no issue at all.
4. The Sammy tech seems to have acknowledged that there's an issue with FLAC playback on our phones, but doesn't seem to be in a position to do anything to fix this.
Do you guys reckon this issue is caused by the HK ROM? I'm ready to flash to a different ROM (preferably with Chinese handwriting input as I occasionally use that). If flashing is indeed necessary, where can I get some step-by-step guide and more info on ROM selection?
ps. As a thing that's somewhat unrelated to my problem, I want to say that there is massive difference in sound quality between the different players. I was at my friend's place testing the Galaxy S with his two monoblock tube amps hooked up to a pair of B&W 804s. We tried the default Sammy Music Player, Mixzing and some Chinese music player app which the certain "individual" advised me to try. It turns out that the Sammy player sounded the best while there was a very noticeable drop in sound quality with Mixzing. Now how that difference in SQ translates into earphone application is I guess an entirely different story.
After the test, my friend concluded that the SQ of the Sammy player was so close to his HTPC (his main audio source equipped with an X-Fi XtremeMusic) that he is now seriously considering a Wavelength USB DAC to replace the X-Fi...
EDIT: Just found this thread on ROM flashing. Now I gotta find a ROM that fits my requirements.

No idea if a ROM flash would fix it, but since it doesnt seem to be hardware related AND the only correspondence in ROM's wich give this problem are the HK ones, I would say its at least worth considering.

Well, I ended up flashing to a South East Asian DXJF4 ROM and guess what? I've gone through 4 or 5 FLACs with no problem! So the problem is definitely caused by something on the HK ROM. I guess I should report this finding to Samsung so that they won't screw up the 2.2 HK ROM.
I went with a SEA ROM hoping I can get decent Chinese handwriting input with it. Unfortunately, it uses a different Chinese input from the HK ROM and I'm having a tough time to even write my own name lol. Another thing is I still can't get the Music Player to recognize WAV files
Oh well, at least I've got FLAC playback sorted out and that's the more important thing...

I also have a HK SGS and am having problems with flac files, sometimes they stop, sometimes they skip to the next song.

I have a UK SGS which started out on JF3 and is now on JG3. I've got one particular FLAC track that stops a couple of minutes in and i have to bump it forward 30 seconds or so and it then caries on. Other than that i've not noticed a problem with FLAC playback on the stock music player.

I'm a bit late to this thread but I've had the same problem as the OP when on ZSJF7 firmware. Had to revert to DXJF4.
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I have a UK SGS which started out on JF3 and is now on JG3. I've got one particular FLAC track that stops a couple of minutes in and i have to bump it forward 30 seconds or so and it then caries on. Other than that i've not noticed a problem with FLAC playback on the stock music player.
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I have several tracks that do this as well - doesn't matter which firmware the phone's running on (haven't tried JG5 yet). There's no problem with MP3 playback.

Westone 3's??? Nice OP
btw i saw on another forum a similar issue of FLAC tags not being read. Has anybody found a solution to that, cuz that sucks big time, having hundreds of files in "UNKNOWN" is a real pain. I'll keep looking.

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Westone 3's??? Nice OP
btw i saw on another forum a similar issue of FLAC tags not being read. Has anybody found a solution to that, cuz that sucks big time, having hundreds of files in "UNKNOWN" is a real pain. I'll keep looking.
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I have a problem with the FLAC tags, I have the Korean Galaxy S SHW-m110s I haven't tried to reupload since getting to firmware updates. I did dl flac tag conversion software that mostly improved this, but for whatever reason the last letter cut off and now I've just thought of also adding a space after the last letter...hmm...anyways...I'll put new FLAC on the phone and hope there is a better answer to this.

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I did dl flac tag conversion software that mostly improved this, but for whatever reason the last letter cut off and now I've just thought of also adding a space after the last letter...hmm...anyways...I'll put new FLAC on the phone and hope there is a better answer to this.
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Where'd you download the conversion software from? Even if the last letter's cut off it's better than nothing

The FLAC problem seems fixed in the latest offical ZSJG4 firmware from Kies. I already listened for 8 flac songs without stop or program crash.

Music Player lag + stutter

Hey guys I've read about another serious issue plaguing the Vibrant and unfortunately it has been affecting mine too. It's with the Music player. Every time I play a song, there's a lag or a stutter in the song.
Regardless of what song is playing, there's a serious stutter, and it takes away from the music experience.
At this point I'm ready to refund this baby back to bell and unfortunately am considering the Iphone.
I really don't want to but the phone is kinda laggy and with the gps + stuttering problem it's getting quite annoying.
Anyone else have this experience while listening to music? Or is it just mine? It's unfortunate cause the screen is quite nice and responsive at times.
It just seems like Samsung hasn't really fixed any of the bugs plaguing the phone.

What are the specifics on your media? Bitrate/encoder/file type? Are you playing off the internal or external sd?

The encoders are all across the platforms. I have .mp3's to .Wma's. Every song has a time where it stutters.
When I had my g1 this stutter and pause in the music happens when I recieved a text message.
It's just a really fast little pause and it really disturbs the music.
I'm using internal memory.

Same problem here . . .
I am using the internal SD card as well
mp3s
196kbps fixed
44.1 khz
basically as vanilla as you can get. . .
I tried airplane mode, just in case it was a sync issue, no luck

I just put a few songs on the 2gb sd card that came with the phone and I tried to play a song and the screen went black and my touch sensitive buttons were light up lol and it restarted itself.
Going back to my Zune HD/iPod lol. oh well. When it comes to media the iPhone takes the cake. Android is more nerdy and customizable.
Doesn't bother me too much. I would have personally like to have an all in one device but dont have the money for ATT's plan and prefer androids customization over iPhones.

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I just put a few songs on the 2gb sd card that came with the phone and I tried to play a song and the screen went black and my touch sensitive buttons were light up lol and it restarted itself.
Going back to my Zune HD/iPod lol. oh well. When it comes to media the iPhone takes the cake. Android is more nerdy and customizable.
Doesn't bother me too much. I would have personally like to have an all in one device but dont have the money for ATT's plan and prefer androids customization over iPhones.
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The Galaxy S Vibrant is supposed to be the best android phone for music on the market. Why should you cough up the dough and then go back to listening on another player?
It's not right. I'm beginning to think it's a software issue.

I've had no problems at all with the music player. Music in mp3 format at 320kbs.
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I just put a few songs on the 2gb sd card that came with the phone and I tried to play a song and the screen went black and my touch sensitive buttons were light up lol and it restarted itself.
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I have about 8GB of MP3, WMA and 4GB of FLAC songs on a class 4 microSD card. I don't have any issue as you describe. Try to reset your phone first.
iPhone and Zune only play few formats. Drag and drop FTW. What a PITA when I have you sync everything to my iPhone using that stupid iTunes. To be able to play my song/movie without converting it to another format FTW too.

Ive noticed this issue as well. The best way to describe it, is like a cd skipping real fast. It's less than a second long, and it's literally a skip in playback.
I initially suspected it was a small lag spike from the screen shutting off, but Ive had it happen twice in a row after the screen is already off.
There must be some process running in the background that is causing this to happen, because it's totally random. It does happen after the screen shuts off though.

I've been using mine with a class 2 card and about 14 gb of music of mostly mp3s. I get an _occasional_ skip but nothing more than I would get with any other music player. Haven't noticed anything else going on at the same time though.
I think it's your device, though IMO if that's enough to make you want an iphone then you're probably missing the point of android in the first place.

This happen to me too. The stock music player. Though, I have no problem with other music player apps eg. 3(cube), mixzing.

It's likely to be a widget. For me it was Gauge Battery.

Im not getting any type of stuttering.... This plays music flawlessly...
Theres got to be something going on with your device. Also I would have heard about this issue alot more if everyone was experiencing it...

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Im not getting any type of stuttering.... This plays music flawlessly...
Theres got to be something going on with your device. Also I would have heard about this issue alot more if everyone was experiencing it...
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Agreed. I don't have this problem either or have never noticed it. The only time I noticed skipping, it was a singular song I had on the device. Not a random occurrence as explained.
That makes issue 3 for the Vibrant that I don't have
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This happen to me too. The stock music player. Though, I have no problem with other music player apps eg. 3(cube), mixzing.
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The same goes for me. No problems with any other music player only the stock. It's not even close to bad enough to switch from this device only happens once every so often.

Ok tried simply music app and playing from a class 6 card. Still getting the stutter. I am using beautiful widget weather app, will disable it and try again. . .
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I have about 5G of music from itunes on my vibrant. I used isync app from the market to get the music from my itunes to my phone, I have had the phone 3 weeks and have experienced ZERO lag, stutter, or skipping...but my uncle who got the phone the same day from the store (i received mine through mail) had the same problem with the stock player. I think its because he used widows media player.
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I have the studder issue. Uploaded through windows media player. It seems to happen when i load the first song, and happens more if I'm listening to music while I search through the the music lists. When the screen is inactive it works perfectly unless its the first song. I have almost 8 gigs of music

It was the weather widget that was causing the problem, thanks heygrl.
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Sorry for hijacking kinda
but I am about to retry it once again. I don't have a SD card other than the 2gb that came with the phone should I put the music on the phones internal and see if I get studdering again?

[Q] Audio stuttering issue at end of tracks

Hi there, I believe a similar thread to this was posted in the WP7 General forum but was abandoned last year around launch, so apologies for the redundancy, but I really need to know if this is a personal issue, a phone issue or what.
Essentially when I'm playing music on my Omnia, certain albums will almost always stutter at the end of each track, and not a skip, around ten seconds of silence then a second of music, and so forth until the track ends. There seems to be no connection between albums and the stutter, I've tried WMAs from Zune, my own MP3s and so on, internet off and on, lots of memory free or not, it just seems completely random. Even worse, some songs just seem to lock up the media player completely, staying at their current position, but unable to play, pause or stop without turning the phone off and on again.
Does anyone else have this problems, or even better a solution?
Thanks in advance.

Have you tried to reset your phone? You will loose all your data, though.

I've got the same issue, but only on songs which i downloaded with my Zune Pass (DRM-Protected songs).

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I've got the same issue, but only on songs which i downloaded with my Zune Pass (DRM-Protected songs).
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I have the same issue, but I have never used Zune pass. I was coming to the conclusion it was tunes I had ripped from CD straight into Zune.
I keep lossless WMA tunes on my PC and transfer 320k MP3s (I think) to my phone...

same issue here on my omnia 16gb JK1 firmware, I wonder why so few people notice or seem to have this problem, its driving me nuts.
I posted this on MSFT answer forums, no respsonse from MSFT for months on this topic...
After the latest update rollercoaster I stopped believing that the issue will eventually solve itself in the foreseeable future and did some further research.
Before I get down to the point, here is yet another observation. The sound stutter seems to be deeply connected to the stuttering of notification sounds (as experienced on HTC devices as well). After a fresh restart the phone notification sounds will work as expected. However, after listeting to musik and getting a stutter at the end of some track, the notification sounds will stutter as well. Again, this can be fixed by restarting the phone. So it seems the Issue is not limited to samsung Phones.
Since I am a shy person and didnt like all the people staring at me while I had to constantly restart my phone to listen to some music, I did the following.
Restoring/resetting the phone and resyncing everything did not help at all, so dont bother trying that.
I then wiped my whole music library from the device and synced a single album (some 20 year old Bon Jovi tracks). Those were all mp3 at a rahter low bitrate. To my surprise I could listen to the the whole album without any single stuttering issue.
I synced another album (this time ripped with lame at 320kbs as mp3 instead of Zune ) and it worked flawlessly. To cut a long story short, I synced mp3s only, avoiding any kind of wma and this is what worked for me.
On a side note, all my wma were DRM free and I still experienced the stutter, so if this bug is related to some DRM check, it definetly fails for unprotected wma as well.
After playing around with a friends zune pass, I got some wma from the marketplace to work (mostly freshly released music) while older songs from the marketplace would produce the stuttering. Consequently it looks like some specific wma version or maybe some header information is the root of the problem.
Anyway, when trying to avoid syncing wma, it is best not to use any file format like .flac or very high bitrates since those will probably be converted to wma by zune during the sync. Also check the conversion settings in Zune to avoid this.
FInally, all my mp3s that I tested so far did work (as already mentioned they are encoded with lame, none of them came from the marketplace).
I hope this helps somehow.
edit: newer firmware and NoDo wont fix it
Device: Omnia7, JK1 firmware, wp 7390
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I have same problem but not with the music in Zune. Instead I experience it when the alarm is playing back!!

Hi all,
This isn't unique to the Omnia - I get it on the Focus too, and I've heard anecdotal evidence that it happens on HTC phones as well.
If anyone's experiencing this, and has an unlocked phone and a registry editor (Heathcliff's is very nice), please try the (possible) fix described here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13184538&postcount=497
and reply there (or here, your choice) if it works or doesn't work for you.

[Q] Clicking and popping during audio playback.

I'm trying to see if I have a bad Iconia. I've only read great things regarding the quality of the device. For the most part I agree.
Problem:
So I just I just bought an Acer Iconia on 6 days ago.
Just a couple days ago while listening to some music, I noticed clicking and popping during playback. Its not quiet either, the offending sound is louder than the music that is playing.
Workaround:
I have found if I want to stop the offending sound. If I play music in a different app, then the switch back to the first music app, the offending sound is gone. However, only a short time passes before I have to perform this task again.
Solution:
I'm considering exchanging the tablet for a new one.
Has anybody else experienced something like this?

Just after I first bought mine, my speakers would occasionally make a crackling sound, sometimes even when no audio was being played, it went away after a bout a week though, and hasn't happened again.

I exchanged the problematic with a new one. I've been listening to music all day without any issues. It appears I got a bad apple the first time. It happens.

UPDATE!!!
So here we are, 3 days worth of regular music playback and I just experienced the problem again. Just as the previous poster mentioned, I will wait until Wednesday next week to see if the problem clears up on its own.
Odd, perhaps this is a software issue?

So here we are, 3 days worth of regular music playback and I just experienced the problem again. Just as the previous poster mentioned, I will wait until Wednesday next week to see if the problem clears up on its own.
Odd, this is starting to sound like a software issue. I will report back soon.

I can pretty much guarantee that this is a software problem, as I didn't have any issues to this effect for months, but now have it happen all the time after either the most recent update or possibly the one immediately prior. I'm having all kinds of problems after this last update, including music playback stopping after the current track when the screen is turned off, the popping and clicking, slow to come back after sleeping, crashing of the browser and of the overall system... Hopefully we'll see another update that will get things back to normal very soon, because this is nuts.

I agree its a software issue. Here is what I've found:
1) I am unable to replicate this problem using other media players. One of the ROMS i was trying out had the toshiba media player, and i played hours of local music with no issues. The new android music player periodically pops and cracks regardless of whether i am playing local or streamed music via gmusic.
2) By simply pausing the current track, and resuming shortly after eliminates the sound issues. You may even need to unplug your headphones / line out if you are using that.
3) I subscribe to Rhapsody and have yet to experience the popping issue, even after continuous hours of streaming playback.
This is very likely a software issue, much like the random issue some HC users were experiencing with the browser spontaneously closing. Hard to track down, and hopefully fixed in some update that may or may not come

To me this sounds like...
I think more troubleshooting may be in order - have you been able to reproduce the problem with *any* mp3 file you use, or only from one specific set of mp3?
Default music player works great for me for any files I decide to throw at it. Sure, I still have to wake up the screen between tracks sometimes, but that is a known issue with the a500 - never get any strange popping - and my a500 literally plays tracks 4+ hours a day (I do a long commute to get to work lol)
Try reproducing the problem using a known good set of mp3 files - the fact that you have returned one unit and are still having the same problem means that chances are:
1) you have a bad set of audio files - other systems, especially desktop and laptop systems - may be able to decode the corrupted or unstandard file without issue - this does not mean the Iconia can do the same.
2) you installed a application that is causing issues - can you reproduce this problem after a full factory reset? Just reset, load your music, and try to reproduce the problem.
If you could attach a copy of the audio file that is causing this issue - perhaps people can take a look at it and see if you have a format issue.

orbix said:
I can pretty much guarantee that this is a software problem, as I didn't have any issues to this effect for months, but now have it happen all the time after either the most recent update or possibly the one immediately prior. I'm having all kinds of problems after this last update, including music playback stopping after the current track when the screen is turned off, the popping and clicking, slow to come back after sleeping, crashing of the browser and of the overall system... Hopefully we'll see another update that will get things back to normal very soon, because this is nuts.
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Music stopping between tracks while screen is asleep is a known issue - it's nothing unique to your experience.
Work around - use an alternative media player (in my experience winamp does not have this issue) or simply hit the power button between tracks to continue playback in the default media player. It's a pain in the ass, but it works.

Unfortunately, I've been using Google Music to deal with having a music library I want to access on my Galaxy S phone, Iconia, and work laptop, so unless I just download everything I want to listen to using the 'make available offline' feature and then listen to it in another app (which is a PITA), I guess I'm stuck with this. The 'pause and it goes away' bit hasn't worked for me, either.
As for the music stopping when the screen is off, I'm just frustrated by this since it was working fine for me before, and then Acer broke this with the update (at least for me- no guarantees it's specifically that update, but something about that update made this start happening for me).